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Spirit of Adventure

  • Pushing for impact

  • Striving for peak performance

  • Careful preparation

  • Channelled energy

  • Risk taking

Making It Happen

  • Pushing for impact: Make a list of the internal and external customers that the team has most contact with. Evaluate how good your relationships are with them. How would you characterise the relationship: eg. homely, friendly, businesslike, confronting, fun, difficult, helpful, combative, boring? Review together how could they be changed or enhanced?

  • Striving for peak performance: Try listing all the things that are getting in the way of the team being outstanding. How can they be eliminated?

  • How would a journalist characterise your team? Dynamic? New? Steady? Brave? Innovative? Sharp? Perhaps you could give your team a name.

  • Careful Preparation: Take a recent team issue and examine how it could have been resolved more effectively with better planning.

  • How much do you know about your internal and external customers as people? Spend some social time with your clients. Get to know them better. Find creative ways of spending time with them talking about issues apart from work.

  • Ask everyone to complete sentences about an issue the team is working on such as "This situation scares me because..."The situation makes me feel good/excited/happy because...

  • Channelled Energy: Time to let go of everything from office files and other clutter, to past attitudes and feelings. Create some space for new things to happen by trusting in the work already done.

  • Downsize team tasks by finding ones that are no longer producing any major benefits. Create a 'things to not do' list. And stop doing them.

  • Develop some new more imaginative ways of communicating your values to your internal and external stakeholders. It could be pictures or posters, or a music cassette, or a new logo - whatever. Anything that says to people "this is what we believe in and stand for."

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